NPR Still Hasn't Learned Its Lesson

[citygator]

Thanks. I always appreciate it when condescending pretentious progressives explain their "thinking" to me

Sure, if they don't need to replace the federal funding why are they mentioning three times an hour when they are begging for money?

Well Mr Rawley, let me try again. They have always relied on fund raising. That is their model. They ask for money all the time because that is how they are funded. Did you think that they got funding magically?

How does Fox get its money? Advertising. Pretend instead of watching a commercial on Foxnews when they come on instead you are watching someone ask for money. That will make you appreciate the infrequency of NPR interruptions.

 

[Oddball]

I dont care. I am over caring about the rural areas. They can suck it. I say, "let them burn". Links below.

Rural hospitals are closing.

Rural Schools are being defunded and here and here and here and here

Rural Farms are filing bankruptcy at alarmingly high numbers

You only ever "cared" about rural areas to virtue signal.

You hold them in utter contempt and we all know it.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Since NPR gets maybe 2 or 3% of funding from the gov, they don't give a flying **** what fuckhead MAGAs think.

 

[initforme]

Closing rural hospitals because of funding is cruelty. There neednt be cuts whatsoever to providing healthcare to citizens. We have untold wealth in this nation.

 

[Mashmont]

Well Mr Rawley, let me try again. They have always relied on fund raising. That is their model. They ask for money all the time because that is how they are funded. Did you think that they got funding magically?

How does Fox get its money? Advertising. Pretend instead of watching a commercial on Foxnews when they come on instead you are watching someone ask for money. That will make you appreciate the infrequency of NPR interruptions.

They did get funding magically until President Trump stepped in to give them a dose of reality.

 

[Mashmont]

Closing rural hospitals because of funding is cruelty. There neednt be cuts whatsoever to providing healthcare to citizens. We have untold wealth in this nation.

Again, how did these rural hospitals manage before 2010 when 0bama gave them all the freebies?

 

[Rawley]

Well Mr Rawley, let me try again. They have always relied on fund raising. That is their model. They ask for money all the time because that is how they are funded. Did you think that they got funding magically?

How does Fox get its money? Advertising. Pretend instead of watching a commercial on Foxnews when they come on instead you are watching someone ask for money. That will make you appreciate the infrequency of NPR interruptions.

Since you didn't answer it Mr. Gator, I guess it was a tough question. Let me ask again, if they don't need to replace the federal funding why are they mentioning three times an hour?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

NPR gets 1% of its income from the federal government. They dont care what you think.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/06/npr-katherine-maher-funding/

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DUUUUUUUUUUH





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[initforme]

Again, how did these rural hospitals manage before 2010 when 0bama gave them all the freebies?

Not sure of your angle here but it seems like you have an issue with poor folk. Poor peoples needs have zero negative economic effects on a nation. Lets start there.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Mashmont and Rawley seem confused.

NPR will survive. Many rural hospitals will fail because of Trumpism.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

I guess I can spoon feed it to you: The funding hurts rural area access to NPR since the broadcast stations are supported by the federal government. The content created by NPR is not funded. So, at the end of the day maga states will lose NPR access and blue states and areas with population density will still get it. Sorry.

From same link:

“Although the loss of federal funding is devastating for many people, certainly in terms of longer term impacts on universal access across the nation,” she said in an interview, “NPR itself is positioned to have runway to withstand operational changes and business model evolution.”

Us "Rural Folk" don't need no stinkin NPR propaganda

PS..without Communist funding from the likes of team Soros, w/o taxpayer funding there would be no communist National Propaganda Radio and you and yours KNOW IT.

Oh, Trump cut BILLIONS in freebies to your beloved foreign communist countries. Looks like you're gonna need to pull back a bit.
About time!
GO TRUMP !!!

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Us "Rural Folk" don't need no stinkin NPR propaganda

They need medical access and care.

 

[hjmick]

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Democrats...losing their National Propaganda Radio ^^^^^^^^^^

 

[citygator]

You only ever "cared" about rural areas to virtue signal.

You hold them in utter contempt and we all know it.

"God helps those who help themselves." Trump 6:66 Trump Bible.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Quinnipiac's poll today has Trump at all time low in this term.

 

[citygator]

Us "Rural Folk" don't need no stinkin NPR propaganda

PS..without Communist funding from the likes of team Soros, w/o taxpayer funding there would be no communist National Propaganda Radio and you and yours KNOW IT.

Oh, Trump cut BILLIONS in freebies to your beloved foreign communist countries. Looks like you're gonna need to pull back a bit.
About time!
GO TRUMP !!!

Again. I dont care if you have hospital access, working farms, roads, schools, NPR. You are a funnel sucking our money from blue states and I am over it. Pull yourselves up by your bootstrap freeloader. What state are you from and I'll send you a bill for how much you owe me.

 

[toobfreak]

During my afternoon errands, I tuned in to NPR now that Rush Limbaugh is gone.

Wow, what a switch.

Three times an hour, they ***** about their rescinded government funding and appeal for donations.

Must really be hurting for money!

One would assume if their leftwing propaganda is that much in demand, they wouldn't have to beg every 20 minutes.

BINGO. Trump spent a FRACTION of what Harris spent with money left over and he waxed her heinie.

They cover the same four stories all the time: 1) War in Gaza 2) Climate change. 3) Immigration ICE abuse and 4) some feminist heroine profile.

Sounds like PBS. But their war in Gaza is only about those meanies the Israelis and never mentions the evil Hamas. Climate change is a dead issue for now. Important only to the Europeans, the Left's favorite buddies. And there is little ICE abuse, just too much illegal aliens abusing us.

Their segments always take the leftwing position and have some down-and-out victim with a sob story. And always, always, always, Trump is to blame. It is clear NPR has not learned its lesson. It is still outrageously leftwing.

The good news is that now that they are privately funded, we don't need to give a shit what they say. We are no longer funding them, and their audience is dead, much like Joe Biden's rallies.

81 million votes my ass. Joe is lucky to have gotten 81,000.

 

[Oddball]

"God helps those who help themselves." Trump 6:66 Trump Bible.

Nobody needs you...Nobody asked for your "help".

Now buzz the **** off, do-gooder.

 

[TimFitz]

You think people in Rural Red areas actually LISTEN to NPR?

Actually, yes.

Of course, there are many right wingers who think an ex disc jockey talking smack on the AM radio is “news’, and haven’t read anything since high school, too.